The first of each month we share - First Tuesday's Teaching Tips These are teaching nuggets from over thirty years in ministry. This month let's take a page from my latest book MENTOR (A Father's Guide to Mentoring His Son) Teaching Nugget: INTEGRITY...
Over the past few weeks we have been sharing with you some entry points the devil endeavors to use as cracks in the doors of our life. If we can identify these, we can shut these doors tightly and thereby cut off his access points to us. “Six Entry Exhibits”: Worry (I Pet 5:5-8) Worry is simply pulling tomorrow’s clouds over today’s sunshine! Y 2. Internalized anger (Eph. 4:26-27) Anger that is internalized eventually becomes wrath that is verbalized! Communication disarms the devil. The devil has a hard time hiding in a place called communication! Shut the front door! ...
Before we jump back into our series let's review...
Over 30 years ago, I was a youth pastor. At that time, I had two nationally known youth pastors that I really admired. I considered them role models and mentors in youth ministry. One of these youth pastors eventually started his own church and was fairly successful. After a few years this pastor committed adultery and resigned from the ministry. Last year I saw a video that he put out. This video described his spiral into sexual addiction, the consequences it eventually brought and his eventual restoration. This video was so impactful we showed it first to our staff. Then we...
Over the last few weeks we have been sharing from this series. Let's review before we continue...
Before we jump into more from our series, let's review our key verses: John 5:14 “Afterward Jesus finds him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, you are made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto you.” I Peter 5:8 “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about seeking whom he may devour.” John 14:30 “Hereafter I will not talk much with you; for the prince of this world cometh and hath nothing in me.” I John 5:18 “We know that whosoever is born of God sins not; but...
I have a pastor who has been a friend of mine for decades. He was scheduled to make a ministry trip to Guatemala. He had been to this particular area to minister many times before. However, this time something on the inside just did not sit right with him about going on that trip. After truly taking it before the Lord he decided not to go. The ministry that my pastor friend was going to minister for owned a small private plane to assist their travel through the vast Guatemalan countryside. The very week my pastor friend was supposed to...
The first of each month we share - First Tuesday's Teaching Tips These are teaching nuggets from over thirty years in ministry. This month let's take a page from the Wisodm 365 book (Because the decisions you make today will directly affect your tomorrow) From January 1st of this New Year! "The proverbs od Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: To Know wisdom and instruction, to perceive the words of understanding, to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, judgement, and equity. To give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion." ~ Proverbs 1:1-4 Teaching Nugget: There is an older version...
Last time we began this series with four scriptures to help you "Shut the Front Door" to the enemy in your life. Let's review those supporting scriptures this week...
Many years ago, Anne and I were ministering in another church and we were praying for the sick. There was a teenage girl there who requested prayer for her kneecap. She had a floating kneecap that was detached from the bone. There was a doctor in the audience who happened to be an orthopedic surgeon. I asked him to come up and examine the kneecap before we prayed. He did and found that he could get all four fingers underneath her kneecap. We then prayed for her and I asked the doctor to now re-examine her. To his amazement, he found...